Need help with replacing crashed disk in zpool

hi all,
I've searched around and read pretty much every thread about zpool related issues, but alas...

the pool in question is status faulted, one of the disks is unavailable (and physically removed to make space for replacement.

I've located the pool with "zpool import -f" but can't import it completely (zpool import -f atlas2), giving the response
cannot import atlas2: I/O error
destroy and recreate the pool from
a backup source
Problem is that I don't...

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